Browse

Quick meaning: Browse is a verb meaning To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand.

Meaning

To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand.

More Meanings

1. To move about while sampling, such as with food or products on display.
2. (transitive, computing) To navigate through hyperlinked documents on a computer, usually with a browser.
3. (intransitive, of an animal) To move about while eating parts of plants, especially plants other than pasture, such as shrubs or trees.
4. (uncountable) Young shoots and twigs.
5. (uncountable) Fodder for cattle and other animals.
6. (countable) The act of browsing through something.
7. (archaic) To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze.

Example Sentences

I'm just browsing around.

I stopped in several bookstores to browse.

The fields between / Are dewy-fresh, brows'd by deep-udder'd kine, […]

HyperText is a way to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will.

Word Forms

• browses
• browsing
• browsed

Synonyms for browse

Depending on context, synonyms include range, graze, crop, pasture, shop, browsing.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shop, range, graze, pasture, crop, peruse.

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